Farewell Gulsary as a Revolutionary Portrait: The Vulnerability of Family and Friendship Relations on Kolkhozes = Bir Devrimci Portresi Olarak Elveda Gülsarı: Kolhozlarda Aile ve Arkadaşlık İlişkilerinin Kırılganlığı

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This article systematically and holistically analyzes Chingiz Aitmatov’s criticism of the Soviet system through the primary relations of comrade Tanabay, the main character of Aitmatov’s (1966) novel Farewell, Gulsary using a qualitative research method and a hermeneutic approach. The hermeneutic approach enables one to be able to understand the author’s perception of a person in a socialist system and to interpret the changes in people’s attitudes, behaviors, and thoughts based on economic relations using the symbolic expressions in the text. In the novel, the tragedy of the pacer horse Gulsa ...More